BellSouth, Time Warner Add Data Subs

BellSouth Corp. reported 111,000 digital-subscriber-line additions in the third quarter, a slight drop from last year's 121,000 but slightly ahead of the 101,000 and 103,000 DSL additions in the first two quarters of 2003, respectively.

Time Warner Cable reported 190,000 cable-modem additions in the third quarter, compared with a gain of 257,000 in third-quarter 2003. The 190,000 represented a slight sequential gain from the second quarter's 170,000.